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download stats for cpan

TeeJay on 2004-05-11T17:26:44

Is there a way for module authors ( or others ) to check the number of downloads of their modules?

I would be very interested to see the update of some of my modules - in particular any people looking at the ebXML stuff or downloading it.

Of course it would also stroke the old ego a bit.

It would more usefully provide some kind users/downloads to developers/patches/listmails statistics which would be an interesting measure of perl use, open source community involvement and other titbits of information that we can pass through our funky charting perl modules

Just copy POE's example

merlyn on 2004-05-11T17:53:59

POE has a "phone home" script that can be run in the top level directory that uploads the results of "make test" including platform.

Just put a note in your Makefile.PL/Build.PL to say "please help me by uploading your make test to my site using ProggyX". Steal the code from POE.

Module Usage Statistics

vek on 2004-05-12T20:52:40

Last week there was a discussion on Perlmonks about this very topic.

Re:Module Usage Statistics

TeeJay on 2004-05-14T08:22:33

after looking through the discussion, I would think that approaching some of the major mirrors would be a better solution than 'phone home'.

Even a handful of mirrors would be able to provide some kind of a picture if they collected and shared statistics.

opt-in and manual phoning home wouldn't really work and opt-out isn't an acceptable solution.

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cog on 2004-05-13T12:05:32

another interesting thought, no? :-)

but again... this could be *really* bad for the ego :-) just let me keep dreaming that somebody actually reads my journal :-)